Schools Welcome back to Seagry School
News from Friends of Seagry School
What a fantastic start it has been! It is so wonderful to welcome all our families back. As a small school, we have exciting news to announce. We have a new assistant head, Miss Christina Brugger, who has come to us from Easton CE Academy, Bristol. We are very happy to welcome her to our school and hope she enjoys her new role in our school community. We have also welcomed Miss Megan Young and Miss Lorna Clifford, who have joined us from Christian Malford School. Miss Young will be teaching key stage 2 and Miss Clifford will be working as a teaching assistant alongside her. Seagry School is now offering outdoor learning to all pupils and they are loving the muddy, fun activities. We are also getting a brand new school entrance which will provide a new reception area and much needed learning areas. Watch this space for the big reveal! To build our class communities, the children were asked to suggest woodland animals as class names. Each class then held a democratic vote to decide which animal would represent them. The children showed great enthusiasm in this task and we are very pleased to present our class emblems with mottos. Key stage 2 are known as Foxes, years 1-2 as Rabbits, reception as Squirrels and preschool as Hedgehogs. It was inspiring to see the children get so involved in the new class names and we look forward to seeing all the great things they will achieve over the school year.
It’s of course been a very strange time for everyone over the last few months and Friends of Seagry School (FoSS), the parent-organised fundraising committee supporting Seagry C of E Primary School and Pre-School, is delighted to see the children (and parents!) returning to our settings for the start of the new academic year. We’d like to take this opportunity to welcome all the new faces – not only the new intake of children and their parents, but the new staff too. We look forward to getting to know you all in due course. In the run up to the new term commencing we’re aware some people have been working hard to tidy and make our lovely settings even more enjoyable for us all. Thank you to Sally Vivash and her Dad, Richard – your hard work hasn’t gone unnoticed. We usually enjoy our annual Conker Championship during autumn, however with coronavirus restrictions it’s sadly not something we’re able to host this year. Our fundraising activities will be somewhat different for the foreseeable future, but we’re still very committed in our efforts and we hope to at least be able to organise a Christmas raffle which will have some fantastic prizes! Finally, we’d like to thank Helen Cooper and Iain McCall, both of whom have recently resigned from their roles on the FoSS committee, for being valued members of the team for so long. Thank you both. We’re always looking for parents to support FoSS, so if you have a child at Seagry and think you can help – perhaps even be part of the committee – please let us know. Social distancing rules permitting, we usually meet once a term or so to plan our events! With best wishes, FoSS
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